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" People come up to me in pubs - gay pubs, mind you - and can't believe that I'm gay. "

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" It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists. "

" In theater, you sometimes can only do one or two jobs a year because they're long periods. In film, you can shoot so many. It's quite interesting. "

" I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed. "

" From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales. "

" To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant. "

" I really loved 'Fast Five.' I thought it was a brilliant movie. I thought it was so well done, well directed. The action sequences were really well thought out. It looked fantastic. "

" When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch. "

" A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere. "

" People want to hear your stories about these wonderful experiences you have, and that's what press tours are for. "

" My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day. "

" Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide. "

" I'm basically turning my apartment into an armory. "

" I've played quite a few good guys. "

" Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool. "

" I'd like to make a film musical. That's really my dream. "

" If I have to look a certain way for something, I know how long it's going to take me do it. "

" It's good for your body to have a break. Even when you're training, you have to have a cheat day every week. The body reacts better to training if you give it intervals of not training, or you relax the diet. "

" One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about. "

" I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script. "

" I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it. "

" I come from a country that lives and breathes rugby, and I didn't think there would be anywhere else in the world that could be the same. But New Zealand takes it to another dimension. It's extraordinary how much passion Kiwis have for the game. "

" If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in. "

" The percentage of people that go to drama college in the U.K. is probably just like anywhere in the world. It's a very hard business to work in. They say that, at any one time, there's only 5% of actors in the world that are actually working and getting paid, which is a shocking percentage, really. "

" Most of the time, you do films and they can be big films, but you are rarely aware of the fan base that comes with it. "

" I've got two cows licks; when I was a kid, all the boys in school used to have curtains, and my hair never used to do that, ever! I always used to try, and I always looked like the geek. "

" I moved to Cardiff when I was 17 and never needed a car. When I came to L.A. for my first job there, I needed a car, so I had to pass my driving test. "

" When I didn't get a job, I thought, 'Don't worry, there'll be another one.' I still live by that now. Nothing really fazes me any more. "

" I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed. "

" I don't think you should spend that much time in the gym. Don't sit around between sets too long. If you want to burn some calories, keep the sets tight. Give yourself 30 seconds to a minute between each set. Supersetting is brilliant. "

" My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must have been eight or nine - she'd dressed me in a matching t-shirt and Bermuda shorts ensemble which I think looked like somebody had thrown up all over it. I was so glad when that sewing machine stopped working, I have to say. "